Anthony Marques Archives - Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources

In the wake of Steve Niles, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Justin Gray’s Creator-Owned Heroes, it’s nice to see other creators establishing informal studios to take a stab at the ongoing-anthology format. Anthony Marques, Fernando Ruiz, Bob Hardin and Fabio Redivo are graduates and current staff instructors of the Kubert School who have teamed to produce Epics, a quarterly comic that serializes four pulp-inspired stories. Marques is creating Katyusha, Ruiz has The Iron Ghost, Hardin’s making A Racy Story and Redivo presents Drake.

The first issue was paid for by fans via Kickstarter and released Sept. 15 during a special signing at Dewy’s Comic City in Madison, New Jersey, but subsequent issues will be published by A Wave Blue World. The publisher has the first issue for sale right now (it’s also available digitally through comiXology) and promises that Issue 2 will be released in March. There are also plans for Katyusha and Iron Ghost spin-off series next year.